Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in AmericaNYU Press, 2008 M11 1 - 288 páginas Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section |
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... mental and physical degenerates.12 As Wendy Kline explains in Building a Better Race, changing the definition of feeblemindedness to refer to a fundamental genetic flaw rather than a slight mental impairment had enormous implications ...
... mental hospitals, and prisons.24 At first, compulsory sterilization programs (which attempted to force people to undergo surgical sterilization) were aimed at “feebleminded” and “genetically inferior” women. These programs tended to be ...
... mental defectives” at three state hospitals, the industrial school for boys, and the industrial home for girls, noting that “a large percentage of the girls brought into court were for sex offenses and a great many of them were found to ...
... mental illness. By insisting that the responsibility is the women's alone (and can be handled through sterilization or not procreating), society is absolved of its obligation to provide at least a modicum of support with health benefits ...
... mental health problems would be more economical. As it is, no-procreation orders impose a financial means test or what one judge called a “'credit check' on the right to bear and beget children.”86 The New York Civil Liberties Union ...
Contenido
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Bearing | 93 |
Mothering | 137 |
Being | 182 |
Notes | 191 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 299 |
About the Author | 307 |
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Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |